biggest obstacle to overcome with PC-based robotics was
the size of the motherboard, the power draw, and providing
the necessary power supply to run it all. With the ITX series
of low power consumption motherboards and the miniscule
PicoPSU line of power supplies, these obstacles are gone.

In next month’s article, I will conclude this series by
covering the software that ties all of this hardware together,
taking advantage of having the power of an onboard PC at
our disposal. We’ll cover installation and trimming of a
Windows install for use in robotics, SEQ servo control
software, implementing onboard machine vision through
Roborealm, wireless networking and remote desktop protocol,
and finally conversational AI implementation through text-to-speech and voice recognition. Catch you next month. SV